Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China
October 21st, 2009 by Key | Posted in News | 1,435 Comments »[QQ] October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.”
Lu Guang (卢广), freelancer photographer, started as an amateur photographer in 1980. He was a factory worker, later started his own photo studio and advertising agency. August of 1993 he returned to post-graduate studies at the Central Arts and Design Academy in Beijing (now is the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University). During graduate school, he studied, traveled all over the country and carved out a career, became the “dark horse” of the photographer circle in Beijing. Skilled at social documentary photography, his insightful, creative and artistic work often focused on “social phenomena and people living at the bottom of society”, attracted the attentions of the national photography circle and the media. Many of his award winning works focused on social issues like, “gold rush in the west”, “drug girl”, “small coal pit”, “HIV village”, “the Grand Canal”, “development of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway” and so on.
1. “At the junction of Ningxia province and Inner Mongolia province, I saw a tall chimney puffing out golden smoke covering the blue sky, large tracts of the grassland have become industrial waste dumps; unbearable foul smell made people want to cough; Surging industrial sewage flowed into the Yellow River…”
- Lu Guang
2. Chemical waste from Jiangsu Taixing Chemical Industrial District (江苏泰兴化工园区) dumped on top of the Yangtze River bank. May 15, 2009
3. Fan Jai Zhuang in Anyang City, Henan province, (河南安阳市范家庄) there is only one wall separating this village from the steelmaking furnaces. The villagers live in this heavily polluted environment where the village is under the iron rain every day. March 24, 2008
4. Industrial sewage of Zhejiang Xiaoshan Industrial District (浙江萧山化工园区) eventually flowed into Qiantang River. April 24, 2009
5. Henan Anyang iron and steel plant’s (河南安阳钢铁厂) sewage flowed into Anyang River. March 25, 2008
6. Guiyu, Guangdong province, (广东省贵屿镇) rivers and reservoirs have been contaminated, the villager is washing in a seriously polluted pond. November 25, 2005
7. Shizuishan Industrial district in Ningxia province (宁夏石嘴山湖滨工业园区), the tall chimneys spitted out smoke and dust. Residents took preventive measure for the falling dust from the sky when going outside. April 22, 2006
8. In the Yellow Sea coastline, countless sewage pipes buried in the beach and even extending into the deep sea. April 28, 2008
9. In Ma’anshan, Anhui province (安徽马鞍山), along the Yangtze River there are many small-scaled Iron selection factories and plastic processing plants. Large amounts of sewage discharged into the Yangtze River June 18, 2009
10. In Inner Mongolia there were 2 “black dragons” from the Lasengmiao Power Plant (内蒙古拉僧庙发电厂) covering the nearby villages. July 26, 2005
11. Jiangsu province Changshu City Fluorine Chemical industry land sewage treatment plant (江苏省常熟市氟化学工业园污水处理厂) was responsible for collection and processing of the industrial sewage. However they did not, the sewage pipe was extended 1500 meters under the Yangtze River and releasing the sewage there. 2009 June 11
12. Soil by Yangtze River, was polluted by Anhui Province Ma’anshan Chemical Industrial District (安徽省马鞍山化工园区). June 26, 2009
13. Large amount of the industrial wastewater flowed to Yellow River from Inner Mongolia Lasengmiao Industrial District (内蒙古拉僧庙工业园区) every day. July 26, 2005
14. A Large amount of the chemical wastewater discharged into Yangtze River from Zhenjiang Titanium mill (镇江市钛粉厂) every day. Less than 1,000 meters away downstream is where the water department of Danyang City gets its water from. June 10, 2009
15. In Haimen city, Jiangsu province Chemical Industrial District sewage treatment Plant (江苏省海门市化工园区污水处理厂) discharged wastewater into Yangtze River. June 5, 2009
16. Hebei Province Shexian Tianjin Iron and steel plant (河北省涉县天津钢铁厂) is a heavily polluting company. Company scale is still growing, seriously affecting the lives of local residents. March 18, 2008
17. Longmen town in Hanchen city, Shaanxi Province (陕西省韩城市龙门镇) has large-scaled industrial development. Environment is very seriously polluted there. April 8, 2008
18. There are over 100 chemical plants in Jiangsu province coastal industry district. (江苏滨海头罾沿海化工园区) Some of them discharge wastewater into the ocean; some heavily contaminated sewage is stored in 5 “Sewage Temporary Pools”. During the 2 high tides in every month, the sewage then gets discharged into the ocean with the tides. June 20, 2008
19. Jiangxi Province Hu Ko County Chemical Industry district (江西省胡口县化工园区) is by the Yangtze River. Chemical factory landfill the Yangtze River bank to expand the scale of the factory without authorization.
20. Anhui Province Cihu Chemical Industry District (安徽省慈湖化工园区) built a underground pipe to discharge wastewater into the Yangtze River. The wastewater sometimes is black, gray, dark red, or yellow, wastewater from different chemical factories has different colors. June 18, 2009
21. Shanxi Province is the most polluted areas of China. It is also the province with the highest rate of birth defects. This loving farmer couple adopted 17 disabled children. April 15, 2009
“In Some areas of China people’s lives were threatened because of the environmental pollution. Residents suffering from all kinds of obscured diseases, the cancer villages, increase of deformed babies, these were the results of sacrificing environment and blindly seeking economical gain.”
- Lu Guang
22. Elder shepherd by the Yellow River cannot stand the smell. April 23, 2006
23. 15-year-old boy from Tianshui, Gansu Province (甘肃天水), dropped out of the school after 2nd grade, followed his parents to Heilonggui (黑龙贵) Industrial District. He earns 16 yuan a day. April 8, 2005
24. Inner Mongolia province Heilonggui (黑龙贵) Industrial District, the couple who worked at the Plaster Kiln and just got home. March 22, 2007
25. Villagers from Kang village in Linfen City, Shanxi Province (山西省临汾市下康村) due to long-term consumption of the polluted water contaminated by industrial waste, there were 50 people who have cancer and cerebral thrombosis. 64-year-old Wang Baosheng got ill since 2003, he has fester all over his body so he cannot go to bed and lying face down on the edge of the bed each day. July 10, 2005
26. Breathing in large amount of dust into the lungs, people gets sick after working there for 1-2 years. Most of these migrant workers come from area of poverty. April 10, 2005
27. Zhangqiao village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan Province (河南省舞钢市洪河边的张桥村), a 45-year-old woman Sun Xiaojun (孙晓军) could not move her feet and hands since 4 years ago. The numerous hospital treatments were not effective. April 7, 2009
28. Zhaozhuang village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province (河南省舞钢市洪河边的赵庄村), 66-year-old Zhao Bingkun suffering from esophageal cancer since 2004, after the second surgery, treatment cost already have reached over 200,000 yuan. His condition is in late stage, he is having fever everyday, waiting for death. April 7, 2009
29. Zhaozhuang village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province (洪河边的河南省西平县张于庄村), Gao Wanshun’s (高万顺) wife died of cancer. Now he lives in poverty. April 3, 2009
30. Linfen City in Shanxi province (山西临汾市) is seriously polluted area. Farmers after working in the cotton fields for 2 hours are filled with coal ashes. September 24 2007
31. Salt factory worker in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province (江苏连云港) said angrily, “when the wind blowing towards our side, the foul smell from the chemical factories is unbearable. There is even more poison gas at night.” July 19, 2008
32. People form Fanjiazhuang (范家庄) are ready to submit a complain filled with their fingerprints, to seek compensation for pollution damages. March 19, 2008
33. In Shanxi Province there are a lot of charitable nursing homes, to help disabled infants abandoned by their parents. April 14, 2009
34. Liujiawan village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province (河南省舞钢市洪河边的刘家湾村), 13 year old Yang Xiao in November 2008 was ill with obscure disease. She was saved by the donation of the villagers. When the grandmother saw the old village chief came to visit his granddaughter, she kneeled on the ground holding granddaughter’s hand. April 19, 2009
35. The oldest is 9, not going to school. The youngest is less than 2 years old. They lived in severely polluted area. They hands and faces were always dirty. April 10, 2005
36. Mazhuang village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province, (河南省舞钢市洪河边的马庄村) 58-year-old Ma Haipeng (马海朋) was suffering from stomach cancer since 2006 and could not work in the field. He must take medicine every day, otherwise it is too painful. April 6, 2009
37. Every year, a lot of deficiency babies in Shanxi Province were abandoned. Kong Zhenlan (孔贞兰) in Qi town (祁县) who was making a living by recycling trash adopted 25 abandoned children. April 14, 2009
38. Xuanwei (宣威) in Yunnan province is a cancer village. Every year there are more than 20 people die of cancer. 11-year-old student Xu Li (徐丽) is suffering from bone cancer. May 8, 2007
39. In Shexian Village, Hebei Province, (河北省涉县固新村) the existing cancer patients are more than 50 people and more than 20 cancer patients die each year. March 18, 2008
40. Zhangyuzhuan village by the Hong River in Xiping county, Henan province, (河南省西平县洪河边的张于庄村) 22-year-old Zhu Xiaoyan (朱小燕) had a tumor in her stomach in 2007. She died after number of hospital treatments on July 2008. 4-year-old girl with her grandfather came to mother’s tomb. April 2009 2
original source: Fengniao
Followup: Interview with Lu Guang, the photographer of “Pollution in China”
Tags: Art, Lu Guang, Photos, Pollution, Pollution in China
Those pictures are heart wrenching. I feel so sorry for the working class Chinese people who can do nothing but try to endure another day. The Governments of both China and the US are to blame for using the Chinese people as nothing more than tools and dumbing the American consumer down to the point of utter brainlessness.
I also feel sad for the folks out there that have to work in those conditions. I do not, however, blame the American government or people for China’s problems.
Are Canadian consumers also dumbed down to the point of utter brainlessness? What makes Canadians so much holier than Americans?
America is demanding more products from China than any nation therfore we are the greatest contributor to their condition.
Jon, can’t agree with your statement. America contributes China to grow fast economically. This is other story about what is going inside China mentally.
As a Canadian I would have to say that we are no better than Americans in this regard. I would add spinelessness – people could vote with their dollars. This is the slavery of our time and it will come home to roost.
Once in a store I mentioned to my mom that the jeans that she was considering buying were most likely made with slave labor. A man nearby said, “buy two!”
I see a fair response from one who understands the crux of the problem, not that of “a frog at the bottom of a well”.
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US and European coutries were facing the problems back in 30-60s, now the Chinese . Those polluted factories in China should built away from populated area.
US and European countries should assist China in constructing their industries with the newest, and safest technologies. Sure, there is the problem of copmetition, but as we can see China is developing its industry regardless.
We can do better than that!
some time ago I would have agreed with You. I recently moved down south. After the winter weather was over and I was able to get out into the surrounding area of my house I began to wonder if I had bought a home on a former landfill. There is so much trash everywhere. The former owners lived here for twenty years and had two daughters with their families living on the property as well and all three families threw trash around and never went to the dump or had trash picked up. There are car parts to washing machines to bottles and I’m afraid to look in the bag scattered everywhere. This is very common here in the south. Some say the south shall rise again, I think it will sink in it’s own garbage.
That is very narrow minded. I’ve lived in the north, the south, hell even hawaii… that problem occurs EVERYWHERE. The fact that this is your first exposure to this lifestyle should not give you the right to claim superiority over your neighbors. That is just ignorant. This is just one problem of the Human Condition.
Why did you move to the south and buy a trash-hole piece of property anyways? You should do the right thing of course, and try to clean it up, not insult an entire population you don’t even know or apparently understand.
we dont need to assist them, they will just steal the technology anyways. china needs a moral makeover even more so then the US
Steal our technology? If it cleans up the planet we ought to GIVE it to them!
They don’t want it – it will hurt their profit!!
^^^^^ SO TRUE, THEY HAVE 2 BILLION PEOPLE AT THEIR DISPOSAL
yes, I can agree with you
Randy,
the pollution should be mitigated as far as possible, also as was rightly mentioned we all need to look at our consumption of goods, if there wasn’t the market then there wouldn’t be the pollution
There wouldn’t be pollution if China cared enough about its residents not to allow industries to pollute.
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Shocking. Internet penetrates the China wall, brings out the truth about Development.
We are in the wrong, we buy your products, we can stop with this… today, now in this moment. Depend only of us.
I wrote an epic on what i see as wrong to me
But for some reason it disappeared from view you see
Made me think that no one wants to know
To enable change for world to heal and grow
Were these pictures not seen and understood
By the leaders of our world then where is the good
The money for the conferance would have been better spent
In helping to heal the scars we humans did produce and cement
Creating a world that will not survive
If we do not take action eventually who will be alive!!!!!
I hurt because we are all children you see
No matter colour or creed supposidly humans we shoud be
The billions used in space exploration could be used, but then where would the wealthy and political rulers of our great nation have to escape to when the world goes down the drain if not outer space.
The trillions used in war should be used.
I’m not justified to use term smashing for the last pic, but I really have to. Thanks for this reality show.
What about Cradle to Cradle, what about designing products with wastes that provide nutrients that the environment needs, litter as compost, waste as food for other living processes, and technical products that can be dismantled and reused.
Cancer – read Foods that Fight Cancer Dr Richard Beliveau and AntiCancer A New Way of Living Dr. David-Servan Schreiber…
This also makes me wonder about the argument, it’s better to buy these products to support these economy’s because without the support things would be worse off, after seeing these pictures I have trouble believing that…
i hope these picture will raise awareness in each of about where things come from: the energy we produce, the plastic we use…
Primo Levi, when describing his feelings about holocaust used the expression “composite feeling” because he felt that each person was in some way guilty. Guilty of committing the crime, guilty of letting someone committing, guilty of surviving.
I feel this “composite feeling” could describe the current situation about production of goods, sustainability and consumption of them.
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So shocking!I have never seen such terrible things just in our country!The cost of economic development is so large!Seeing those badly sick people,those innocent children,those polluted rivers,I doubt why don’t our government take actions,and I believe that they must know that,but why?If we have to make such pollution in order to gain our economy,we won’t really be prosperous and strong.Where is the”society in harmony”?
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when all of china is dead,,,,, then it will stop.
probably
Talk without thinking and reasoning has little value.
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So many comments blaming the American government for inaction. The blame game is what such comments amount to. Until people assume personal responsibility for our own actions, nothing good can be done. If we as individuals make changes in our way of living, we can help the people in these photos. Take your own reusable bags to the grocery store and phase out plastic bags from your life. Consider not buying JUNK you don’t need that is made in China. If you cannot come of with at least 2 legitimate reasons why you need to buy something, then don’t. Walk or ride your bike instead of driving your car (that has a ton of parts on it made in China) so that it lasts a little longer. Stop buying clothes that fashion dictates you need to have and wear what your over-burdened closet is already struggling to hold. Wear it out before you replace it…. Simple things to do. Your savings account will look a lot better too.
this is probalby the most dead on statment i read so far, its nice to know some people in this world are still thinking right?
Hi Che-Li! I appreciated your comments about how to save money. They were wise words in the area of home economics. Perhaps you might consider a pamphlet or shosrt paperback on “How To Cut Expenses To The bone. By Che-Li”. Watch me on “George Hunt Alex Jones” (google). I have gone active in exposing the fellows who cast all of these inflation/depression problems on us: the international banking crowd.
Bye for now! George Hunt
My company outsources sewing to China, I go there all the time, it’s disgustingly polluted. I don’t see a way out of this mess. The combined efforts of the multitudes by recycling or fancy light bulbs or what ever will not turn the industrial revolution around in China, it will go on, all the coal and oil in the world will be gobbled up by me, you and our Chinese brethren. Short of going back in time and keeping humans from becoming “SMART” enough to use these so called natural resources, we are going to kill ourselves. The human brain has evolved into a negative mutation and is going to kill itself.
ALL the COMMENTORS here talking trash to the chinese, this happens worldwide ASSHOLES! try the muslim world and mexico and africa, you see pollution and impoverished and victims of industrial waste. The eco self righteous morons who try make their own laws to FORCE their ideology on the rest of this world. All humans are different and have their choice of how they want to live. The way you morons think will cause more wars! Many of you idiots live in a cocoon! Stop blaiming just one group. Look at the idiots in the backward 7th century morons from the middle east, they pollute more! Most of the people are racist piece of crap talking a lot trash cause their mouths are full trash. Blame AMERICA, if you live in AMERICA, get the hell out and live in SAUDI ARABIA or IRAN where you will die fro making such stupid comments. Those are worst countries and races. Why not worry about YOUR OWN problems and the problems you make. None of you idiots are any better. Happy to buy chinese products, happy to buy AMERICAN products. STOP FORCING YOUR BELIEFS on others or you will get your FACE REARRANGE. You idiots. LET PEOPLE DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES YOU BUNCH OF IGNORANT AND POMPOUS ARROGANT SELF RIGHTEOUS MORONS!
gung fu: For the definition of “IGNORANT AND POMPOUS”, you have but to look in the mirror.
Intelligent discussion does not need to resort to blaiming or name-calling. Neither produces the results that are badly needed to stop world pollution. Everything is connected…. when china pollutes their rivers and the ocean, it does not stay there…. The oceanic currents ensures the ocean world-wide is effected. Likewise with the air currents…… each individuals part in the scheme of things effects the whole world and you can do your part to ensure that your own little corner of the world is cleaned up as well as you can manage. If everyone made sure that their living space was as clean as they could manage and if we helped our neighbour clean his, we could all make a big difference – together. Drop by drop, you fill the cup. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution….. you choose……
China is set on staying a world power at the expense of its people. let the president of china live in these conditions!!! shameful.
Fully agree.
I for one try to be carefull NOT to buy Chinese. I do not support the Chinese in their polution of not only their home but our children as well. I however can not see that if everyone did the same, things would improve. Commies cultivate a slave class and if the west did not support this then there would be mass graves for those that starve. I will not be held hostage in concience or in fact for the despotic chinese govt. F ‘em.
i don’t support racist assholes like you either and would like to use GUNG FU to kick your ass and racist assholes like you and those in this racist forums. why not stop buying OIL from your MORE RACIST BUDDIES called MUSLIMS and ARABS or the middle east who is far far worst then the commies. STOP VOTING FOR THE COMMIES IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THEN, your president is a commie, why do you support him. I don’t see morons like you going against CUBA and venezuela or MEXICO who is contaminating AMERICA with illegals TAKING your jobs and kicking you out of your property. Go pick on the chinese but not the other GROUPS who does far more harm on western societies! you are all racist idiots. You behave like all the 7th century most racist group of people called MUSLIMS. You should worry about SAUDI ARABIA AND IRAN when they IMPOSE THEIR SHARIA piece of crap laws down your throat and shove the koran up your throat by FORCE or DEATH! those are the people you should worry about moron!
seems as if we may be looking at a fight over Taiwan…..
Horrific pictures! The American, Canadian, or the Chinese people are not to blame however. Nafta, cafta and all the rest stripped the people of North America of there jobs! The global corporations and banksters wanted more profit at the expense of the livelyhood of Americans and the literal lives of the poor Chinese people. The greed of these people is leading to the collapse of the world economy and all of us, the innocent sea of humanity will bear the brunt of the wicked globalist masters. Soon the taxes will begin under Obama in the U.S. and elsewhere and it will be like getting blood out of a rock! Global warming taxes (while we’re freezing), carbon footprint taxes, cap and trade(whatever the hell that is). God help us, because He is the only one who can!
Dear J.W.: I appreciated your share about the international world order screwing the common man. You were right on the money (no pun intended). I think you would appreciate a talk show I did with Alex Jones. You can get to it easily through google “george hunt alex jones” will get you there. I accidentally attended the bank and conservation communitys’ secret meeting about the plans of the new world order. If it interests you, could you contact other talk show hosts you may know to have me on the air? I have to get my info out quick before their ugly parade passes by us and noone learned about it. Thanks again for your analysess. George Hunt geo.hunt70@gmail.com
Wow. It’s like Dickensian London, but on a continental scale. Someone is making money.
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This is just wrong. Just goes to show how much more important monaey is than anything else to most people. Unfortunately, it will not end. We cannot stop buying Chinese products anymore, because in most cases, we have no choice. Large corporations that exploit these people, whereever they may be in the world should be shamed.
The Love Of Money Is The Root Of All Evil.
I don’t need the bible to realize this truth.
Corporations only exist to make a profit,no matter who or what is destroyed in the process.
Yup. All hail Mammon.
China ist ein ARSCHLOCH!!!
sack reis. weisse bescheid.
These pictures are very sad, but who really cares as long as your 401K increases in value and you can purchase cheap products at walmart? I just want to be safe, in my 4/3 located in suburbia. I feel good knowing we exported all the very nasty jobs and now we can create a secondary market cleaning up the mess. Rally the troops we need to save china, great business model. Do something have assed knowing you will come back later to clean it up at more cost then to do it right the first time. Anyone know how much we are spending at Hanford, WA to clean up the mess the smartest men in the world made. hundreds of billions, anyone know how much we will spend to clean up China, trillions, well trillion is the new billion. I don’t understand how the drywall could be bad from china or how does lead/cadmium get in my kids toys, or how 80% of all recalled items are from china? If ever a picture told a 1000 words.
I think you are blaming the victims and not the cause!
The people cashing in on their 401k’s are NOT shopping at Walmart…
i think people just got thier 401ks robbed by the same people who are causing this polution, dont be afriad to do a little reading before you write word garbage
I will never by any thing fron china again.
What is WRONG with Humanity!?!!
And I don’t blame Americans – their criminal leaders sold out American businesses so it has become near impossible to not buy Chinese Goods anymore for commonly used household needs.
This is not about excess consumerism – this is about the CORRUPTION at the heart of the American and Chinese Governments currently!
We all need to take our countries back from these pitifull elitist swine – now more than ever!
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poor chinise, they all gonna die soon
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Nothing new, every thing on the pictures you can see in any country
you made the SMARTEST comments. People who live in ignorance like to use the BLAME GAME! it does happen everywhere. Just go to kosovo or the balkans in europe where i had peace missions there, try going to tijuana in mexico and many parts of that country and south america. Go all over africa and go to the entire middle east which is so backward, or if you live in AMERICA, just go to the GHETTOS like oakland ca. or by the border with mexico. The eco nazi’s just want to CONTROL every human and decide who should live or die, it’s called the NEW WORLD ORDER being manufactured by the ECO ENVIRONMENTALIST WACKO NAZIS! who is ruling the U.N.
Dear gung fu,
everything you are posting here does not reduce blame on China. You can not become clearer just pointing on others.
Whenever you purchase a product “Made in China”, you are causing these conditions to go worse!
However if you don’t, you will die with them. Eventually there’s nothing you could do.
You hit the problem on the head, Robert, hostile bicyclist. The guys who own the wealth
are constantly screwing us–everywhere we turn. The enviro-aristocrats are running the conservation show AND the industrial show at the same time. They hold all the cards. Get in touch with your Maker–this is a spiritual warfare problem and it goes beyond “just stealing money”. Take a look if you will at my talk with Alex Jones a couple weeks ago. I laid out in my inarticulate way of their key conspiratorial meeting. You can see us on ‘Alex Jones George Hunt’ on google and many other sites./ His site is ‘infowars.com’. Keep up the journlism, Robert. You’re keener than you know. George Hunt
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It’s population that does it, not a foreign country.
And to stop buying Chinese products will not fix it either.
China has 4 times the population of the USA ( as does India )
China has near same land mass.
Then Australia has near same land mass as both, yet we have only 22 Million people.
Yet we have a high pollution rate !
These are the YANG to the YING that we all need.
Electricity ( Without this, we can not use this Computer to talk about these atrocities )
Motor Car ( As we need to get to work to make Money, to buy the Computer )
Every part of Western and Eastern life HAS to have this working in the background.
You are a thinker, Think! I was fired from a major corporation in 1968 in protest toward their in-your-face pollution policies which somehow gave them permission to pollute in the forest, the pulp mills, the finishing mills, and when people used their sanitary paper products they created more and more litter. The vice-presidents who I was addressing told me “the name of the game in Scott Paper is “profits and dividends, not the ‘girl scouts’”. They did not think their ‘ignore-ance’ would catch up with them, but it did about 2 years later when they were singled out as a major eyesore in the Philadelphia landscape or words to that effect. The company tumbled and they had to sell out to Kimberly-Clark, their arch competitor! Karma happens. I’ve seen it in my 71 years here on earth. See me at ‘alex jones george hunt’ on google or other sites.
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“I can see so far because I stand on the shoulders of giants.”
China has gone through long periods where it’s art, culture and technology were arguably superior to Europe and the West. However, after being beaten up by the British, the French and the Americans it entered the 20th Century well behind the Japanese. Then it was beaten up by the Japanese.
When China discovered that greed and “enlightened” self interest were the keys to productivity, the West was only too happy to give up its technological superiority to hire cheap Chinese labor. China climbed on the West’s shoulders, and never looked back. Now the costs of the great Leap Forward have come home to roost.
China now has the ability to overcome these problems, but the CAPEX and operating costs will be incredible. Is there the necessary political will?
Lord save us from greed. Everytime we buy Chinese crap this sort of inhumanity is advanced. I hope the fools that expect the US to pay the cretans that control the third world for our”polution” and bogus climate change get a load of these pictures. No doubt we are to blame for this as well. Haters of our great country, made less so by recent political events, might consider moving to countries that are more in line with their statist philosephies.
IMHO I think that West countries should buy only goods from “certified” factories. Certified by west countries, that they are ecological. I dont want to support this pain by buying goods from this factories.
Hi, I’m french and in France to the bachelor we have the TPE in english it means supervised pratical work … And my subject was the pollution in China and your site have been very interessing for me. Your pictures are so shocking. So, I just wanted to say that your story was so great and I loved it. And thank you so much for all the informations you gave me without knowing it. Thanks !
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I SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE NEXT GENERATION
YOUR SONS & YOUR DAUGHTERS
THEIR CHILDREN TO COME
WHAT WILL YOU LEAVE THEM FOR THEIR RECREATION?
AN OILS SLICK
A PYLON
AN INDUSTRIAL SLUM?
LEAVE THEM A FLOWER
SOME GRASS & A HEDGEROW
SOME HILLS AND A VALLEY A VIEW TO THE SEA
THESE THINGS ARE NOT YOURS
TO DESTROY AS YOU WANT TO
A GIFT GIVEN ONCE
FOR ETERNITY.
IS MY MESSAGE TO THE WORLD!
LADYSKA!
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It’s population that does it, not a foreign country.
The former owners lived here for twenty years and had
two daughters with their families living on the property as well
and all three families threw trash around and never went to the dump
or had trash picked up.
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this is so sick.
and i’m sitting in the room next to my chinese roommate who won’t understand one word of what i’m telling her about…
just one small step could mean a LOT…would be so great to just see her saving water, separate waste, stopping the heating from running 24/7…but she won’t listen…in case u don’t understand, chinese rule no. 1: just say “yes yes thanks” and smile.
omg.
well at least thats only my own impression, there may b others..
staggering and unimaginable.
to feed insatiable consumerism.
when it kills us we won’t need to worry about the things we want to buy.
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I feel so sad because we are getting almost every product here and that is a part of polluting the air.
But WalMart is doing great !
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Sad sad sad. There is now nothing we can do. All is in the hands of the Chinese government. But the costs of such horrific pollution will force them eventually to do something.
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Don’t play the blame game on China. Look at the USA in the 1900s. This is only a eonomic. Its only a matter of time before new techology is created to wipe out pollution. Im a man for the future. The year 2110 we will have extraordinary technology beyond our imagination.
A man for the future!
Technology wiping out pollution!
That is beyond every mans imagination!
You are extraordinary for pointing this out!
Future man! I want to help! Can I be the woman?
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FUCK humanity. Humanity simply doesn’t care about anything. Just imagine the world before this plaque appeared on the back of it. This used to be paradise. In 30-40 years, this planet will be hell. But there is a good news! A lot of people will have 1000 billion dollars! I hope that people who think about money as the most valuable thing on earth, won’t die until they have to explain their grandchildren why they cannot go outside to play, why they can only see everything destroyed.
Wherever there is life, there has always been suffering and there always will be. Often it is painful to see humanity fail in their efforts to reduce the suffering of many on behalf of the short term intrests or profit of just a few. Yet as we are forced to move away from the carbon-based industries I feel there is improvement towards a sustainable economy, based on a common and global bio-sphere awareness. It all depends on how we manage to educate the next generation. There is still a chance we may get there. Here’s some good news to calm you down:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/business/energy-environment/31renew.html
Humanity when left to our own device, will always choose what’s best for #1. To a degree- YES! You should. We need that degree of selfishness because it’s what gives each one of us the value of life. We all have that personal space in this world and we can make-it whatever we want to make-it.
But when the degree has done a 360, meaning choices we are making for our self and not giving any extra thought to the effects it will have on the rest of the world. Is now the reason that choices for self has almost destroyed humanity.
That surrounding environment that we all just assumed would take care of it’s self every time we walked out the door is now the cancers that are killing us. Collectively humanity is to blame and will always be at fault as long as we chose to do nothing but cry and keep blaming each other. There is not one country to take all the blame and there is not just one human being to blame for all our environmental issues.
We are all guilty and know one is better than anyone else. We all have products that fill our homes and all of these products have had and do have the countries that they were made in stamp on them. Had we all known the effect that factories with pollution this horrible was going to happen before we ever built them. I think it’s fair to say that collectively humanity would have never built them.
If we want to help clean up the messes that we have all created so that our environment is able to heal and renew it’s self. Then encourage everyone around you and all the other
countries so that collectively humanity can breath fresh air that is essential to living a
healthy life. If you personal choose to keep attacking and blaming then you have selfishly prolonged suffering that is shorting our lives. You have been slowing down the progress that all humanity wants and needs.
How long we live and our desire for longevity is simply our existence. Human nature in order to survive, depends on the choices we all make unselfishly working together. Which is the reason we should at least try.
NEWSFLASH!THIS JUST IN!
“China is trying” and are becoming the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, and
they plan to expand even further this year. In the last two years, China has emerge as the
world’s largest manufacturer of solar panels. And the country is pushing hard to build efficient types of coal power plants. Nobody has ever seen such fast development in a wind market.
This is great!